ms Meeting of Peace : Eavoys is Again Postponed, ROOSEVELT DOES NOT GIVE UP. Sigas That His Persistency Is Causing Resent- ment The Respective Sultes of Pleaipoten- tiaries Take a Discouraging View of the Out- look—Have Trunks Packed and Accounts Readered Preparatory to Departure. The gravest crisis in the peace negotmtions has been reached. At the request of the Japanese, who are awaiting a from the Mikado to a commun cation supposed to have em amated from President Roose velt, the next meeting has been postponed until Tuesday noon Mr. Takahira says that as the conference was brought about by the President it would be to go cantiously out of him response ater he well onsidered the peless 3 the Frost of the Army in Maochuria Greatly Extended. Gunshu ass, Man (By center August 10, skirmishin of a bodies nothing ing the long quiet forcement i tre whi the the of of the wire example character of ¢ war, whether it | mobilization tested The armies ago, and the the Japanese that which yang The as rola : i acquisition of the railway gether with their Fengwangcheng Ct munications, and General Kawamura's new line of communication and defense, running from the head of navigation on the Yalu river across to Kaiyuan, with the occupation’ of the Changpaishan Mountain region, makes control of the administration of South Manchuria as complete as that achieved in the north by similar organization, and in the rapid consolidation of these connections the destiny of Manchuria is clearly fixed regardless of other influences Japanese Transport Sunk. Nagasaki (By Cable), — The British steamer Heralong and the Japancse transport Kinglo collided at 10 o'clock P. M. in the Inland Sea. The trans- port was sunk and 160 men were drown. ed. Twenty Actors Injured. Berlin (By Cable).—~The collapse of the timber Work of a terrace 16 feet above the stage during a rehearsal at sthe Metropole Theatre, while 10 per. formers were on the terrace and the stage was crowded, caused the injury of 20 persons. Panic-stricken actors and actresses rushed into the streets in stage attire. It is feared that four of the injured will die, Max Steiden, the most popular comic singer in Berlin, be- ing among the number, Nearly all of the others injured are young girls, Domestic, Edgar Stachelberg, member of a cigar manufacturing firm of Tampa, Fla, has been challenged by one of his employes swht a duel because Stachelberg or dered his employes to cease reading The cha literature, ignored In his partment archistic hie War commander annual report the Wint, Department of the mends that married General the men he enlistment and that chap! ited from marrying sold William H. York, aged was of Gu Me during the Civi | County (Kv.) Jail | murder of h broth Mr eodore P . the Isthmian Canal guest of the Presi and discussed with taming to the great The discovery of Warren, Pa. 1c! year rgan’s one eri 1 onts, chairman of HIIMIISSI100, Oyster matters was a Bay, apper lent him arma 3 Revoluti vements h asus and ns of Russia mcreasing, and serious disturbances hb nary me other sectic telephones and telegraphs throughout the -ountry are government monopolies. Japanese warships bombarded and de stroyed two Russian guard stations on the Amur River. The Portsmouth correspondent of the St. Petersburg Slovo cables his paper that Emperor William is exerting his influence with the Czar against Presi. dent Roosevelt's good offices. being de- sirious of seeing Russia further exhaust ed by a continuance of the war. General Liautey, commanding French forces in Algeria, is preparing for a movement along the frontier of Morocco in the event of the Sultan refusing the French demands Charles R. Flint, of New York, had a conference with the Czar on industrial conditions with a view to Americans be- coming interested in industrial projects in Russia, Count Lamsdorff, the Russian foreign minister, denies having made a state- ment in an interview that Russia would not pay an indemnity under any guise. The fifth of a new fleet of 25 Japanese torpedo-boat destroyers was launched in Kure. No new cases of Asiatic cholera have been discovered at Culm, West Prus- sia, PRESIDENT TAKES DIVE Goes Down on a Submarine in the Sound. WAS SUBMERGED FOR FIFTY MINUTES. President Roosevelt Spends Three Hours, All Told, on Board the Plunger and the Sub- marine Is Put Through All Her Maneuvers for His Benefit— The Boat Behaved Beautls fully, Though a Heavy Sea Was On. dent HIS EVE descent made a 1 i On board nger delight saiQ IAIN that posit AW apDoriyg ating an of her torpedoe a dron wh Burglars Blow Open Safes. N J} Bur Flemington, { Special) the other morn. ing. Enough to wreck a dozen secured $6 in cash and between 140 | and $150 in postage stamps. The bur- glars did not disturb the mail matter, | i i mitroglycerine was used | safes. The thieves | but carried away a bundle of papers be- to Postmaster Wood. The drawer, comtaming a small of cash and stamps, was not forced open. Frank H. Van Syckle’s | meat market was broken into. but noth- i ing of value was taken Surrounding | towns were quickly notified to be on the lookout for Suspicious characters, but no arrests have been made W. C. Hardison a Suicide. Charlotte, N. C { Special), —W. Hardison, of Wadesboro, N. C, fied with various manufacturing enter. prises, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head, only half an hour after reaching home from Blowing Rock, where he had been on account of his health. He died almost instantly. The act is attributed to ill health, cou- pled with recent heavy losses occasioned by the failure of the Independent Cot- ton Oil Company, of Darlington, 8. C. Mr. Hardison was owner of one of the mills controlled by this company, c. identi. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS Wilkie, of report, of Sect of ' 4 number conhscati Chief the Service, I annual tells dete and of counter ther arrest and mm of Carl Bailey Methodist pomted 1 Germany, It i ate I r dent Rooseve 5 of State Loo ador George S which before the Was for se months, ha Pre charge Verai ident condition mind as Thomas E, Waggaman for embezzlement, sum of $3000 for hi M Bave i appearance Bonaparte idate for 1 ceed Senator regarding n and deter sirable WANTS TO RACE AIRSHIPS. Aerosaut Kansbeoshue Issues Challenge to Asother Flyer, AMERICANS IN PRISON. They Are Held in Nicaragua Oar Goverament Growing Arxiour, Rockefeller the Donor 7 1}).-<That the hue y : has Pt secre ¥ i Specia $014 Qanvw nierence $6 000.000 of new des } the source The an following right on the heels Rock- | y he ned to disclose nouncement of President Harper's visit to Mr cfel in Cleveland, leaves t . abo Ins : AlCS let's home room {or where the y's windfall has come Fired om From Ambush. Tenn al) ~When Tennessee Consolidated Coal open the hut-down of over fourteen months, ). | Rust, Dick Henley, John McGovern, | and another man were shot from am- | bush. Rust and Henley are dead. and Tracy, { Spe the Company after mines, al ed. The company had refused to rec- ognize members of miners’ union i 3 Manila (By Cable) —An outbreak of | cholera in Manila has been reported. It | is thought that it is due to green vege. tables from Hongkong. Two soldiers died at Camp McKinley, which is now | quarantined In the city several na tives and American woman have The of the board of one Surgeons ous, and that heroic efforts will be made to place it under control, FINANCIAL, Cambria is tipped for a rise. ow to the advance in United States and Pennsylvania Steel preferred, In the first week in August ten rail. roads report a gain of 7 per cent. in gross earnings. For the month of July 31 railroads made a gain of 8 per cent. in gross earnings. Baltimore & Ohio's net Carnings in July increased $160,000. Northern Pa- cific’s gross earnings for the same month ing Steel FROM PLACE TO PLACE M———— Fever is Fast Scattered. SEVERAL CASES AT GULFPORT, MISS. It Yellow Becoming Hes Also Reappeared at Providence The Fallure to Isolate the Scourge Has Sent | Another Panic of Quarantine Through Louisiana lo New Orleans the Situation Coatinues to Improve, 3% NS ¢ New Total to Deaths Total a T: tal Remaini The Nat hie 7 1 $€5 date ng Bi increased $400,000, Burial of Pag! Joses. Leprosy Cured. 11 + International Sund was held Toledo, Ohio here general resented Ass cial 54.801 teachers Sunday and a | member 4.168.308 in international f Shoots His Wile snd Seif. Pittsburg Alexander Stem Hwright, McClurg | i le, shot his wife through { Special) mi living in er, street, South Si a the head and then, placing the revolver to temple, his brain Stemer his wife will recover i$ sani, was caused by due to drink sent a bullet mo died netantly, but The shooting, it msane jealousy his right Fight te Death at Picaic. Meridian, Miss. (Special). —At a pic nic in Union Springs Frank and Manson Chisholm, cousins, engaged mm a quar rel, in which Frank was stabbed in the neck and fatally wounded. As he fell he drew a pistol, and, firing twice, in- stantly killed his cousin, Manson Chis holm, i SA Women Cat Fanciers, Albany, N. Y. (Special).~Women cat fanciers living in various parts of the country incorporated the Lock Haven NEW YORK DAY BY DAY a. SET ioe sleuth toms senger of steamship Kr eral unnatura Oat, waistcoa n th Duiges and howed th He takes has mt ily from Keeper Gleason and seems to like It is vehemently asserted that he has already mastere the first few bare of “Tammany,” ane he'l elephant 1. Is at £1C SSONS Ga £4 Il have the song from end to end hn election day—sure To the Pole on Missouri Mules. Seattle, Wash. (Special). — Advices Dawson that a club of 2x Kilondikers has been formed to finance and equip an expedition to the Nort} Pole. Sufficient funds have been as sured to make the expedition a certain ty. Eskimo dogs and mountain-chimb ing mules are 10 carry the explorers They will strike straight northward Missouri mules will be weed NASA from slate —— IN THE HELD OF LABOR, There are said to be 100.000 Japa an interest in the ownership of thor. oughbred cats, to find homes and care for vagrant cats and to give private and public feline exhibitions, he head. quarters of the club is in Rochester, and the directors include women resid- ing in that city and in Chicago, Chat. bam, N. Y.; Dorchester, Mass: Ro- meo, Mich; Pittsburg, Pa; Ithaca, N. Y., and New York city. Printers in Troy, N. Y., have obtained Only $0,000 persons employed in the are unorgan-
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